The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't make music with you if I didn't know you. If you're a good artist, and if you know it as… — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Try to sing exactly like an artist you hear, and then all of the sudden, you'll feel what it feels like if… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I'm not on the road I'm in my studio. — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“Because it will make a real artist of you. The more you suffer, the more grateful you ought to be. An empty… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“To conclude this: As when a man comes into a palace, built according to the exactest rule of art, and with an… — William Symington Copy Share Image
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing. — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
“I just wished they'd see Mari, their daughter. I wished they saw how much I liked art and how much I didn't… — H.M. Ward Copy Share Image
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
I love art and finding different bits and bobs for the apartment; so, I'm adding all my personal touches to the house. — Amy Jackson Copy Share Image
Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art. — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I believe in myself and my art so much. I've always trusted destiny. Wherever it takes me, I just work damn hard… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past. — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play… — Ved Mehta Copy Share Image
Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Part Two -- Red Flags Chapter Five: Red Flags of a Psychopath artist unknown Three things cannot be long… — A.B. Admin Copy Share Image
Financial independence could be one of the factors, but most 65 plus artistes in our industry wish to continue working for the… — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“What you produce as a writer is art. A voice that opens a vein and leaves the reader lapping at the blood… — H.N. Sieverding Copy Share Image
I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image